Barrier that doesn't last forever?

[tinlar]

We have recently started a Supers game using Hero System 6E. One of our supers is Unnatural Force that creates Force Barriers; both walls and spheres.

 

We've consistently ran into a problem with Barrier being an instant power that makes an object instead of a constant power that maintains an objects existence.

 

How would you build a barrier that would require you to pay endurance as a constant power in order to maintain its existence?

 

It seems that making it constant wouldn't cause the barrier to vanish when endurance was no longer fueled into it (no more than the damage from a constant blast would vanish when the blast was no longer paid for).

 

Any thoughts?

[Steve Long]

Re: Barrier that doesn't last forever?

 

Just apply Costs Endurance (to maintain; -1/2) to it. There are plenty of examples of this in, for example, Champions Powers, if you want to look at some write-ups; there's also some discussion of this in the forthcoming Advanced Player's Guide II.